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HARNESS BUCKLE AND TRACE ATTACHMENT.

No. 559,900. PatentedMay 12, 1896.

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OTTO LEUZINGER AND AXEL A. BLOM, OF ANNANDALE, MINNESOTA, AS- SIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO SAMUEL H. MCGUIRE, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-BUCKLE AND TRACE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,900, dated May 12, 1896.

Application filed September 26, 1895. Serial No. 563,807. (N model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that we, OTTO LEUZINGER and AXEL A. BLOM, citizens of the United States, residing at Annandale, in the county of \Vright and State of Minnesotznhave invented certain new and useful lmprovementsin Harness-Buckles and Trace Attachments; and we do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention; such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our inventionrelates to improvements in harness-buckles and trace attachments or harness-buckles of the kind to which several parts of the harness may be attached.

The objects of our invention are, first, to provide a harness-buckle by which the hametug and the trace of the harness may be adjustably connected without the usual wear and tear to the leather at the point of connection second, to provide a durable, easilyoperated, and adjustable harness-buckle to which a plurality of parts of the harness may be connected. .These and other objects we attain by the novel construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of our buckle, viewed from the outer side, which term in this specification refers to the side of the buckle turned away from the horse, while the side next to the horse will be termed the inner side. Fig. 2 is a view of the lower edge of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the inner side of the device or abottom view of Fig. 2 with a portion of the shield lo cut away between I) and b. Fig. l is a central sectional view on the line a a in Fig. l and with the shield 7tomitted. Fig. 5 is a detail outside view of a part of the buckle as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an enlarged portion of Fig. -L, as between 0 and c. Fig. Tis a detail crossseetion of the main body of the buckle.

Referring to the drawings by letters of reference, A designates the main body of the buckle, which consists of an elongated plate with angularly-bcnt stiffening edges B and has its rear end provided with an inwardlyprojecting box or socket O, which in order to lighten the material is cut away, as at D. This box entirely encircles the front end of the trace E, which is secured therein by the three rivets F. The front end of the plate A is provided on the inner side with a guidingloop G, through which is guided the hametug H, of which the rear end portion I is per manently secured on the pin J, of which the head end is screw-threaded, as at K, into the inner bar L of a secondary bucklebody Q, which slides upon the plate or main body A and may be interlocked therewith at predetermined points, as will presently be more fully described. Said secondary body Q comprises the two loops M and N, encircling the body-plate A, and the longitudinal inner bar L and outer bar 0, formed integrally with and connecting together said loops. It further comprises the upper loop P, adapted for securing the back-band thereto, the lower loop R, to which the belly-band may be secured, and the rear loop S, to which the holdback-strap-may be secured. Through the center of the bars 0 and L and through either one of the holes T in the plate A and through the hole U in the portion I of the hame-tug H we insert the pin V, which is kept in place by a peg TV, secured in its side and taking hold inside of the bar 0 in the annular groove X thereof. As will be seen in Fig. 5, the hole in bar O is provided with a notch Y, through which the peg TV may slip in ,and'out when the pin TV is turned in a forward-pointin g position withits thumblever Z, which is secured on the outer end of said pin and is provided with a projection or peg g, engaging the cavity of hole h in the outer bar 0 and has its free end 2 turned outwardly, so as to form a finger-catch by which the spring-arm Z may be sprung outward till the peg g is freed. The pin V may then be turned till the peg \V registers with the notch Y, when the pin V may be removed and inserted in another one of the holes T, thus shortening or lengthening the trace, which, together with the plate A, moves and is adjustable in the buckle portion Q by means of the said removable interlocked pin V.

7c is a shield, preferably made of leather,

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and secured by the screws Z Z and m m in a stretched position upon the inner side of the buckle, so as to cover up the gap 11 and make the buckle smooth and soft upon its inner side where it may touch the animal. In makin g a cheap grade of the buckle the said shield may be dispensed with.

From the above description the construction and operation will clearly appear, and it will be seen that we provide a harness-buckle to which five different straps of the harness maybe secured, and in which the main parts connected are made adjustable toward each other by means of the single one hole U in one of the parts and two metallic bodies secured one to each part and sliding one within the other and being adjustably secured together byan interlocked pin extendin g therethrough. It will further be observed that when it is desired to actually shorten the tug or the trace all there is to be done is to remove the screw-pin J, out new holes in the tug II for the pins J and V, cut away the surplus of the tug, and replace the pins. Instead of the rivets F screws may be used.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The harness-buckle and trace attachment having an elongated metallic bodyplate, provided with holes as T, and having one of its ends secured to the trace and its other end provided with a guiding-loop for the hame-tug to pass through, a secondary metallic body slidingly encircling the main body and being secured to the end of the hame-tug,arcn1o ably-interlocked pin passed through a single hole in the outer metallic body and in turn through either of the several holes in the elongated body, substantially as shown and described and for the purpose set forth.

2. The harness-buckle and trace attachment, comprising an elongated metallic body or plate having its edges bent an gularly with the plate and one of its ends provided with a socket encircling the end of the trace, which is secured therein by screws or rivets passed through the trace and the inner and outer walls of the socket; the opposite end of said plate being provided with a guiding-loop as G, for the hame-tug to pass through; a second ary metallic body as Q, slidingly encircling the elongated body and having in its inner wall provided a screw-pin as J, extending with its unthreaded portion into the hametug, between the inner wall of the secondary body and the main plate, the interlocked pin V, inserted transversely and substantially centrally through the secondary body and being adapted for insertion in either of the holes T, in the main plate, said secondary body of the buckle being formed with the loops P, R, and S, at its upper, lower and rear edges respectively, and with the annular recess X, notch Y, and -the cavity h, the said pin V, being provided with the peg \V, adapted to slip through the notch Y, and engage the groove X; the spring-arm Z, secured on the outer end of the pin V, and having the peg g, adapted to engage the cavity 71, when the peg XV, is away from the notch Y, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

3. In a harness-buckle and trace attachment, the combination with the elongated metallic body A, having the inwardly-projecting socket G, in which to secure the end of the trace, and the inwardly-projecting loop G, for the hame-tug to be guided in; the secondary metallic body G, encircling the main body and having the hame-tug secured to it at the inner side of the main body, and a pin for sccuringit at various points upon the main body, of the permanently-strctched flexible shield 7;, secured to the main body near its ends and covering, substantially the entire inner side of the buckle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

()TTO LEUZINGER. AXEL A. BLOM. \Vitnesses ALLEN G. SEXTON, LEROY RITCHIE. 

